Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.
If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.
